"Wellness 100: 100 Carbs/100 Recipes," written by Amber French, DO and Kari Morris, is filled with facts, encouragement, motivation and recipes to help each and every one of us live and enjoy a healthy life. This program is to encourage a healthy lifestyle, based upon...

"Silent Fortune" by Janet Carafa captures your attention from the very first illustration and the introduction to the silent land in the sky. In nonsense rhyme and colorful prosaic imagery we meet Fortune, the mime who secretly wants more than this magical rainbow cloud life,...

It’s February of 1970 and in South Orange, New Jersey, Seven year old Flynn O'Shea likes living in her parents' apartment which is located above the bar they own and manage. Flynn is the youngest of the three O'Shea children Maeve being the oldest and...

The book starts with a prologue that is actually the end, and then reverts to the beginning, where Ellenore Gin is teaching and Theodore Kim is engaged in a bar fight. It then switches to an observatory, where Telev focuses the telescope on some coordinates,...

"Nework" by Katherine Kammer is a nifty little workbook of ideas to help find balance in the working part of one's life. The author tells the reader that career goals are obtainable but that, with many of us, the goal is actually a step-by-step process...

One fateful cold and rainy afternoon, eighteen year old Ali O’Canohagn’s life was altered by fate. Never in a million years would Ali have dreamed or believed that just a simple errand for her mother would thrust her into a world that she didn’t think...

Have you read the reports of citizens petitioning the White House for their various states' secession from the United States? If you haven't, it is probably because they are small, unorganized groups of people using a pre-written petition circulated on the Internet. What if some...

RSDS is a horrible affliction. The brain refuses to turn off the pain that can inhabit any part of or almost all of the body. Mary Jane Gonzales' brief book "In the Blink of an Eye: My Life with RSDS" does an excellent job of...

"Fruit of My Labor" is a book to enjoy at any level. It is actually a small study of various types of poetry. The author Joe Frey teaches with his broad array of examples such as Haiku, Caligram, Alliteration, and tongue twisters and limericks. This...

"The Death of a Shrinking Violet" by James Robinson, Jr. is an eclectic collection of essays and that word should prepare you for such diverse topics as becoming and being a grandfather, marriage, great movies and Sam's club, sleep and so many more. James gives...

"At the Bamboo Bar" is a short and interesting read about “turning fifty” in Bangkok by Morgan McFinn. The book is a compilation of all that happened in the Bamboo bar on the author’s fiftieth birthday. The story is a vivid reminiscence of the various...

The List by Tom Wallace is a fast-paced, thrilling read. It takes the reader on a journey of intrigue immersed in political and corporate greed. Detective Jack Dantzler's quest to solve the mystery behind his parent's deaths thrusts him into a world of international crime....

"Words Falling Like Water" is a very interesting, frustrating, funny, and heartbreaking story all wrapped up into one. First time author Sonya Vaughn explains how the failing auto industry has suffered and how that suffering has impacted the people worldwide. There are examples given within...

"Tax Cheating" is not a book one can take to bed and relax with. It questions and challenges the basis of the US Tax Code, and people’s reasons to avoid, cheat and defraud on their tax statements. The book explores the unwieldy complexity of the...

What are the dreams of a man who was once an orphan, deprived of all the good things of life? "Prickle in a Dream" by Paul Masembe adds vibrant colors to this highly emotional theme: the plight of an orphan in a very hostile social...

"Silence, Inhabited" by Rich Follett contains poems which are like aching nerves, exposed to the reader. The poems are highly autobiographical and deal with a common but less controversial theme: childhood sexual abuse. Having been a pathetic victim of abuse in his childhood, Follett is...

Authors Janet Carpman and Myron Grant have written "Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around" as a guide for the traveler on how to read signs, consult maps and ask for directions. As the Foreword, by Richard Saul Wurman, states, "For directionally challenged people,...

Alex Burns aka Falcon 5, is the type of operative you want on your side. He is the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency and a group of operatives considered renegades. Burns has many enemies that would love to see him dead. Burns and his...

Marco Lobo's "The Witch Hunter's Amulet" is story of the age old struggle for territories and religions. When Portugal occupied India in the sixteenth century it sought to fling out the ancient religions of Islam and Hinduism by whatever means necessary. The tactics of the...

"Hammer Come Down" begins in Alabama in the 1830's. President Andrew Jackson has ordered Native Americans to relocate from their eastern and southern American locales to the Western territories. Jason, an African-American bondsman to Tolin Cobb, returns with Tolin from the Seminole wars in Florida...